Holocaust Remembrance Day: Memory Is a Responsibility

Genocide Awareness Month

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazi regime, along with the millions of Roma, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people, political dissidents, and others targeted for annihilation. We remember not only the victims, but the conditions that made genocide possible:the normalization of dehumanization, the weaponization of law, the silence … Read more

Ending genocide, one state (or city) at a time

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We have an honorable American tradition of our cities and states upholding human rights. Now is the time for us to demand that our taxpayer dollars don’t contribute to genocide. During the American Revolution, town meetings adopted resolutions calling for a boycott of British-made goods. The Boston Tea Party seized on the spirit of these resolutions through … Read more

April 1, 1933 — The German boycott of Jewish businesses

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Yesterday marked the start of Genocide Awareness Month. April was selected because of all the genocides that started during that month and because of the number of other significant events that took place. The boycott that started the Holocaust About three months after Adolph Hitler took control of Germany, his government staged a boycott of … Read more

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